The relationship between foot pain, anthropometric variables and footwear among older people

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-97

  Paiva de Castro, Alessandra ^a   Rebelatto, José Rubens ^a   Aurichio, Thaís Rabiatti ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Feet; Pain

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CORRELATION METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; FEET; FOOT POSTURE INDEX; HIGH-HEELED SHOES; METATARSAL HEAD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PAIN;

HEALTH;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT PAIN; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; METATARSAL BONE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SHOE; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 70349765715     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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